Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center Records

Debra Johnson Center Release Paths

Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center is a TDOC women’s prison. Its release and movement records belong to the state correctional system. A departure can lead to another TDOC institution, parole in the community, sentence expiration, mandatory reentry supervision, or another formal state disposition. A reported move from the Stewarts Lane campus must therefore be tied to a status and destination.

FOIL can distinguish the main paths. Incarcerated with a new Assigned Location points to continued state custody. Parole means the person has left prison under Board conditions and TDOC supervision. Probation is a court-ordered supervision status. Inactive can identify a former TDOC record, but it is not a synonym for exoneration or proof that every obligation ended. Read the release, sentence, and hearing fields together.

Confirm Debra Johnson Release

Use the official TDOC FOIL gateway for a current or former Tennessee felony offender. The database includes people in state custody and people who remain under TDOC supervision after prison. It does not depend on the short online window used by Davidson County’s recent booking page.

1. Search by TOMIS or TDOC number when available. Otherwise search the person’s name and check aliases.
2. Compare the result with date of birth, SID, and other identity details before opening the record.
3. Read Supervision Status and Assigned Location first. Look for DJRC, another prison, or a supervision office.
4. Review Sentence Begin Date, Sentence End Date, Release Eligibility Date, and release information as separate fields.
5. Check Parole Hearing Date and Result, while remembering that a Board grant can precede physical release.
6. Confirm the actual event through a TDOC archived record or a VINE notice tied to the state agency.

A Davidson County booking may be part of the person’s earlier history. If DCSO recorded a transfer to TDOC, the county release marks the end of county custody, not the end of confinement. The Davidson County released-inmate record paths show how to reconcile those county and state episodes.

Debra Johnson Center FOIL Fields

FOIL’s state fields are designed to show more than a live institution roster. That makes it useful after a woman leaves DJRC. Search results may include a photo, status, assigned location, offenses, sentence information, parole data, and release information. The exact set varies by record.

Record the date on which FOIL was checked. TDOC warns that sentence dates can change when more court papers arrive. Use the exact field names rather than recasting eligibility as a guaranteed release date. A new assigned location usually has more immediate value when deciding whether the person transferred.

Debra Johnson Records Contact

TDOC’s archived-record route can supply a deeper history when FOIL is incomplete or unclear. Ask for existing records tied to the full name and TOMIS number. A focused request can seek the final release or discharge authorization, movement entry, recorded destination, sentence computation, release type and date, supervision status, and available state offender photograph.

TDOC instructs requesters not to send payment with the first request. The department will provide notice if archive-search charges apply. Describe the date range and record item with care. A request for the existing release authorization is more precise than asking the agency to prove that a person is free.

State release processing includes more than changing a public status. TDOC staff compare sentencing documents with the offender-management record, review judgments and revocations, check detainers and unprocessed terms, obtain sentence-office confirmation, and complete an authorized release checklist. Those steps can explain why a Board result or eligibility date appears before DJRC physically releases the person. Requesting the final authorization and movement entry provides a better answer than estimating from FOIL alone.

Note: Use the TOMIS number and both facility names when an older DJRC record is difficult to locate.

Former Tennessee Prison for Women

Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center replaced the Tennessee Prison for Women name. Older judgments, news accounts, archived TDOC documents, and personal records may use the former name, while current TDOC sources use DJRC. The two names should not be treated as separate Nashville state prisons when tracing one woman’s custody history.

Start with the identifier, not the wording of the facility name. A TOMIS or TDOC number follows the state record through an institutional rename and later movement. FOIL’s Assigned Location should reflect the current system, while an archived movement record may preserve the historic term. Include “formerly Tennessee Prison for Women” in a focused request if it helps define the time period.

A date range adds needed context. A record created under the former name can still describe the same state sentence that later appears under DJRC. Compare offense, sentence, identifier, and movement dates before joining the entries. The name change should never be recorded as a release or transfer event on its own.

DJRC

The current short name for Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center.

Tennessee Prison for Women

The former name associated with older records for the Nashville women’s prison.

Parole

Conditional community release before sentence expiration, supervised by TDOC.

Discharge

The formal end of the recorded state custody or supervision obligation.

Debra Johnson Release Date Limits

FOIL’s Release Eligibility Date is not an appointed exit date from DJRC. Tenn. Code Ann. § 40-35-501 makes parole eligibility depend on the offense date, offense, sentencing range, sentence length, consecutive terms, and exclusions. Traditional range percentages do not apply to every sentence. Some specified offenses use 85 percent, some require 100 percent, and some provide no parole eligibility.

Sentence credits are governed by § 41-21-236. Eligible state prisoners may earn credits within statutory limits for good institutional behavior and satisfactory program work, but credits can be lost or restricted. Their effect depends on the controlling offense and sentence date. For certain newer sentences, credits may affect parole eligibility without reducing the sentence expiration field.

Actual release can also change because of a corrected judgment, jail credit, discipline, a parole denial or deferral, a release-plan requirement, a detainer, another case, or a sentence aggregation. Compare FOIL’s eligibility and expiration fields with the Board result. Then seek TDOC’s release record. A person can leave the prison at sentence expiration and still enter mandatory reentry supervision under Tennessee law.

Debra Johnson VINE Notices

Tennessee VINE receives state-prison custody updates from TDOC. Search VINELink by name or offender ID, select the result reported by TDOC, and compare its status with FOIL. The registration flow may offer phone, text, email, TTY, or app notice for release, transfer, and other custody events. Telephone notices use a PIN to acknowledge receipt.

VINE is a notification system, not the official sentence calculator. A DJRC transfer alert may point to another prison, while a release alert may lead to parole or another custodian. Read the reporting agency and event type, then verify Supervision Status and Assigned Location. Support is available at 888-868-4631. If the two systems update at different times, request the TDOC movement or release authorization for the final state record.

ICE Holds After DJRC Release

Section 19’s immigration warning applies by custodian. A historic ICE agreement that names an old Davidson County jail does not prove anything about a woman leaving DJRC. DJRC is a state prison, so TDOC’s release authorization and movement record must first show whether another agency is set to receive the person.

If the state record identifies an ICE handoff, search the ICE Online Detainee Locator with an A-number and country of birth or biographical details. The accurate description is release from TDOC to immigration custody. It is not a community discharge. An empty public result can reflect delay or limits in locator coverage, so follow up through official ICE channels when the TDOC transfer is documented.

Davidson Facility Names Changed

Facility names matter in Davidson County because local and state institutions share Nashville addresses. DCSO’s jail campus changed in 2020 when Downtown Detention Center opened, Hill Detention Center closed, populations moved, and a former annex was repurposed. DJRC’s own former Tennessee Prison for Women identity creates a separate state-level naming issue.

Current operator and identifier resolve the confusion. DCSO control numbers belong to county bookings. TOMIS or TDOC numbers belong to state custody or supervision. Use the current TDOC state-prison page and FOIL assignment for DJRC, then include the former name when seeking historic material. A county record can document the earlier handoff to TDOC, but it cannot verify the later state-prison release.

Note: An older Tennessee Prison for Women reference may describe today’s DJRC, not a second facility.